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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Lizzie Poage & John Means came down & took Annie & Sarah up to Mr. Burgess’s to spend the day. At two o’clock they went with Maggie to the Meeting house where she leads the sabbath school children to sing -- Kate went & brought the children home.Peggy's comments:The reuse of first names is sometimes confusing; here's an attempt to clarify relationships. Mrs. Burgess was born Elizabeth Means. She married first William Voris and had 5 daughters. William Voris died and Elizabeth later married Dyer Burgess.Two of William and Elizabeth's daughters died in infancy.One of Elizabeth's daughters is Lizzie Voris Cutler, married to William Cutler.Another of Elizabeth's daughters was Anne Voris Poage, who married James Poage. Ann and James had a daughter, also called Lizzie. Anne died shortly after giving birth and Anne's mother, Mrs. Burgess, raised the baby.The youngest of Elizabeth's daughters was Maggie Voris who at the time of this journal, is also living with her mother, Elizabeth Burgess, and step-father, Dyer Burgess.Annie and Sarah are Lizzie and William Cutler's daughters.Kate Dawes is William and Lizzie Cutler's niece (daughter of William's sister Sarah) and lived in the old stone house with the Cutlers.Their ages at the time of this journal are:William Cutler: 50Lizzie Cutler: 30Annie Cutler: 9Sarah Cutler: 7Julia Cutler: 49Dyer Burgess: 79Elizabeth Means Voris Burgess: 64Maggie Voris: 27Lizzie Poage: 14Kate Dawes:32William Cutler and his family lived in the Old Stone House in which he was born. His sister Julia Cutler also lived there. Their niece Kate Dawes lived with them.The Burgess family lived nearby.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Packed soldiers box. Found that there was enough canned & dried fruit, socks, &c. to fill three boxes which we accordingly filled & directed to the Sanitary Commission at Cincinnati & George put them upon the train.Peggy's comments:The Sanitary Commission formed shortly after the beginning of the Civil War. The purpose was to improve conditions in hospitals and on the field for U. S. soldiers.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Cold. Mrs. Terril washed. George Cutter went to Marietta as a witness at Court. His brother Charles came with him to spend the night--

The bombardment of Vicksburg has begun by our gunboats -- we must wait patiently on the Lord. Shall not the Judge of all His earth do right.

Peggy's comments:

George Cutter worked for the Cutler family. This entry makes me curious as to why he was going to court!Vicksburg, Mississippi, was a Confederate-controlled fortress along the Mississippi River. U. S. Grant led the Union Army of theTennessee against this stronghold.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Snow three or four inches deep fell last night -- snowing today. Went to Sabbath School, nearly all my class present -- felt encouraged to hope that my efforts for their improvement might not be all in vain.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Kate, Lizzie, myself and the little girls went to Mr. Dickey’s where we met Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Beman Gates, Mrs. Sala Bosworth, Mrs. Lindley, Mrs. B. C. Bailey & Mrs. And Mr. Goff & Maggie. Spent the day pleasantly. Kate took Annie & Sarah home in the buggy but the road is so muddy Lizzie & I came on the cars where we met Mrs. Col. Clark & A. H. Browning.

Peggy's notes:

Mrs. Beman Gates (Betsey Shipman Gates) was the sister of Mrs. Sala Bosworth (Joanna Frances Shipman). Their daughters would later marry brothers in the Dawes family.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

I see it stated that Lieut James G. Worthington, son of Gen. James T. Worthington of Chillicothe, died lately in Washington. He was on Gen. Piatt’s staff. When Kate & Lizzie came home from Cincinnati Gen. Worthington was on the train coming to visit his sick son---

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Mrs. Burgess & Maggie were here to dinner. Our carpet & rug which had been detained arrived this evening -- it is very handsome & good. Together they cost fifty-two dollars.Rufus & his regiment are now at Belle Plaine near the Potomac.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Valonia Reppert & Mary J. Newton came on morning train to spend the day but finding Lizzie & Kate absent, they went to Mr. Harts. Thermometer 8o above zero this morning. The train was delayed at Pilcher by a cattle train which got off the track so Lizzie & Kate did not arrive at home until nine o’clock at night. They brought with them a box of Brittania for me.

Peggy's comments:

Brittania biscuits were manufactured in the late 1800's. Could this be the treat that Lizzie and Kate brought to Julia?

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Lizzie & Kate started to Cincinnati this morning to select a sewing machine in exchange for our old one and to do some shopping. A beautiful day but cold. Annie has gone to spend the night with her Aunt Maggie.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

On April 12, 1861, Julia P. Cutler was living in Constitution, Ohio, six miles from Marietta. An avid reader, Julia Cutler was also an avid letter writer--and she kept journals. When news of the fall of Fort Sumter reached the Old Stone House in Ohio on April 13, 1861, Julia Cutler began a journal. She wrote nearly every day throughout the duration of the Civil War. Her entries record news about the politics and battles of the war, but also include family and domestic concerns. Julia Cutler's journals were preserved by Mary Frances Dawes Beach, the daughter of Rufus R. Dawes. Mary Dawes Beach typed the entries for the first two years of the Civil War and those typescripts were passed down in the family. The original journals were donated to the Special Collections Library of Marietta College.